Managed cyber security services for SMEs in the UK, BVI & USA.

Most SMEs should start with Cyber Essentials and Cyber Awareness Training. Cyber Essentials proves you have the five core technical controls in place and is often required by clients, insurers and public sector contracts. Awareness training addresses the biggest single risk factor — staff clicking phishing links. Together they're quick to deploy, affordable, and give you a certified baseline before you invest in more advanced monitoring or testing.

It runs in three stages. First, compliance and people: Cyber Essentials certification plus awareness training for staff. Second, strengthen: assessments, phishing simulation, penetration testing and EDR/MDR to find and close real gaps. Third, ongoing protection: Cyber Shield bundles monitoring, training and support into one subscription. Businesses don't need to buy everything at once — start where you are and add layers as budget and risk appetite allow.

A single in-house hire can't realistically cover 24/7 monitoring, penetration testing, compliance and incident response — those are different skill sets, and security staff are expensive and hard to recruit. Outsourcing to a managed provider gives SMEs access to a full team of specialists, round-the-clock coverage and enterprise-grade tools for a fraction of the cost of building that capability internally.

Costs vary by service and business size. Cyber Shield, our all-in-one subscription, starts from £0.99 per user per month with a 14-day free trial. Standalone services such as Cyber Essentials, penetration testing or assessments are quoted based on scope — number of devices, users and systems involved. We give fixed, transparent pricing upfront rather than vague day rates, so there are no surprises once work starts.

Cyber Essentials certification typically completes within one to two weeks once the self-assessment is submitted. Awareness training and phishing simulation can be live within days. EDR/MDR deployment across a fleet of devices usually takes one to two weeks depending on size. Penetration tests and assessments are scheduled and typically run over a few days on-site or remotely, with a report following shortly after.

Yes. Every service is designed to scale down to businesses with as few as five to ten employees, without watering down the substance. Cyber Essentials and Cyber Shield in particular are aimed squarely at small teams that don't have any dedicated IT security resource. Pricing, onboarding and reporting are all built to work for a five-person office as well as a two-hundred-person firm.

Cyber Shield combines awareness training, phishing simulation and core protections into one subscription with one point of contact, one invoice and consistent reporting. Buying services individually gives more control over scope but means managing multiple relationships and renewal dates. Most SMEs that have completed the compliance and testing stages find the bundled model simpler to administer and easier to budget for month to month.

General IT support firms typically focus on helpdesk, hardware and connectivity, not dedicated security monitoring, threat detection or compliance certification. We work alongside your existing IT provider rather than replacing them, handling the specialist security layer — Cyber Essentials, EDR/MDR, SOC monitoring, testing — while they continue managing day-to-day infrastructure. Most clients keep both relationships running in parallel.